The Delaware police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a wounded wheelchair-bound man will not face any civil rights charges. Handicapped African-American man Jeremy McDole was literally shot out of his wheelchair and killed during a fatal encounter with four police corporals of the Wilmington Police Department in September 2015. Federal prosecutors say no civil rights violations occurred. Warning: Graphic Video RT.com reports: On Friday, federal officials with the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, the FBI, and the US Justice Department’s civil rights division told the family of Jeremy McDole, the man killed by Wilmington police, that evidence does not indicate the officers willfully used excessive force in shooting McDole. “The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Wilmington Police Department (WPD) Corporals involved in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old paraplegic Jeremy McDole on Sept. 23, 2015,” the US attorney’s office said in a release, according to the News Journal. The encounter between police and McDole, 28, was caught on cellphone video by a witness, eliciting outrage in Wilmington and beyond. Police arrived on the scene after a 911 call claiming an African-American man in [...]
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